WPvivid Backup Pro

WPvivid Backup Pro costs $99 once for 2 sites. The annual plan costs $49 a year, so the lifetime license pays for itself after 25 months. Over five years you save $146 compared with renewing every year.

Yes, if you look after your own sites for longer than two years. The lifetime price equals about two yearly fees, so from the third year on the license costs you nothing more. Lifetime updates and support keep a tool running that you only notice when something breaks, and that is exactly the kind of tool you do not want to renew by hand.

For freelancers and agencies the larger tiers matter more than the entry price: 2 sites for $99, 10 sites for $139, 50 sites for $199, unlimited sites for $299. The step from 2 to 10 domains is small, so check how many sites you will manage in a few years before you pick the Blogger tier. It pays off less if your host already gives you reliable backups and staging.

The free WPvivid plugin on wordpress.org is where most people start. It backs up files and database and restores a site when something goes wrong, which already covers a lot of small sites.

WPvivid Backup Pro brings backup, migration and staging together in one plugin. You get scheduled backups with retention rules, cloud storage such as Google Drive, Dropbox, Amazon S3 and OneDrive, migration to a new host or domain, staging environments for testing changes on a copy and multisite support.

Backups are insurance: you pay for them every year and hope never to need them. A lifetime license for a WordPress backup plugin removes that recurring cost while the plugin keeps getting updates, which matters because backups have to keep working with every new WordPress release.

Lifetime plans are counted by domain. On the Blogger tier a license can be moved only once every 3 days, which is fine for your own sites but slow if you rotate it between client projects.

You install the Pro plugin from your account and activate it on your domains. Connect your cloud storage first, set a backup schedule with retention rules and run one test restore, so you know the process before you need it. Then create a staging copy for your next update. The refund window is 30 days.

Sites

2 sites

Updates

For life

Support

For life

Money back guarantee

30 days

Taken from the vendor’s pricing page, like the price above.

On the market since

2019

Active installs

900,000+ free version on wordpress.org

Rating

4.9 out of 5 on wordpress.org

Current version

0.9.136

Last update

Sep 28, 2026

Figures from the public plugin directory, checked on Oct 4, 2026. wordpress.org listing(opens in a new tab)

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